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    "content": "Equal parental responsibility. 30. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the parents of a child shall have parental responsibility over the child on an equal basis, and neither the father nor the mother of the child shall have a superior right or claim against the other in exercise of such parental responsibility whether or not the child is born within or outside wedlock. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), two or more persons may have and exercise concurrent parental responsibility over the same child. (3) The court may, in the best interest of the child, give orders that confer parental responsibility on only one parent. The reason why I am bringing this is because it goes back to the same case I was referring to; which is RN vs the Attorney General. At the time we were bringing in this case, we were using the old Constitution and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter. What we were told at that point was that our Constitution did not have certain categories of discrimination. Mercifully I sat as a founding member of the Constitution and we brought in very clearly non-discrimination of children born out of wedlock. That is why I am very keen about the definition of “differential” and “discrimination”. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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